Three social entrepreneurs from Africa were in Washington, DC, in February to promote their creative – and lucrative – solutions to some of Africa’s most intractable sanitation problems.
The three – Kenyan David Kuria, Nigerian Joseph Adelegan and South African Trevor Mulaudzi – have each identified a problem in their communities and set about finding a solution based on a business model rather than turning to aid or public funding. Their innovations are successfully changing social behavior and improving public health, the environment and the economy. Continue reading
Search engine company Google announced in October that it awarded grants of more than $14 million to support researchers in Africa and Southeast Asia who are working to prevent the next pandemic. The initiative, known as Predict and Prevent, will be part of a global effort to identify hot spots where diseases may emerge, detect new pathogens circulating in animal and human populations, and respond to outbreaks before they become global crises. 
